For the uninitiated, RDP stands for Remote Desktop Protocol. And just like the expanded form suggests, it’s a protocol for a machine to accept remote desktop connections from other machines. XRDP is a server for CentOS 7 that implements this protocol and allows you to use different types of software to connect with your CentOS 7 server.<\/p>\n
Before we move on, though, let us answer a natural question: why do XRDP when we have SSH sessions? A very good question, except that SSH vs. RDP is not really a debate. While SSH is based on a text-driven environment, RDP is concerned with fully graphical (GUI-based) control of your CentOS 7 machine. That means you can launch programs, send email, even play games, just as if you were sitting right in front of your machine.<\/p>\n
The overall experience depends on your machine’s configuration and network performance, and is generally a bit clunky. But at times when you want someone (or yourself) to get behind the wheels and sort things out, there’s no beating the XRDP server.<\/p>\n
The first step is to install the EPEL repository so that its packages can be included into your system packages:<\/p>\n
# wget http:\/\/dl.fedoraproject.org\/pub\/epel\/7\/x86_64\/e\/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm<\/p>\n
# rpm -ivh epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then you need to update the yum package manager:<\/p>\n
# yum update<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The next step is to actually install XRDP. You’ll also need the tigervnc-server package:<\/p>\n
# yum -y install xrdp tigervnc-server<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Once done, you need to start the XRDP service and set it up to auto-launch when the system starts:<\/p>\n
# systemctl start xrdp.service<\/p>\n
# systemctl enable xrdp.service<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Finally, if you’re using a firewall, you’ll need to add an exception for the port 3389, which is what XRDP uses:<\/p>\n
# firewall-cmd –permanent –zone=public –add-port=3389\/tcp<\/p>\n
# firewall-cmd –reload<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And with that, you have XRDP up and running on your CentOS 7 machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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